Fan-made Hobbit trailer is better than the real thing

As fans are still waiting for a trailer for the third Hobbit film to be released (given the descriptive, if not terribly inspired, title of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies), they'll have to sate their Middle-earth cravings with this unofficial, fan-made version.

Pieced together from Eragon, Sucker Punch, Snow White and the Huntsman, Jack the Giant Slayer, Season of the Witch, Midnight Chronicles, Dragonfyre, Fire & Ice, 47 Ronin, and Dragon Crusaders, the trailer recreates the excitement of the first two Hobbit films, not to mention director Peter Jackson's previous Lord of the Rings trilogy.

My personal favourite Hobbit ode, though, was created as part of a couch-gag sequence for The Simpsons.

The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies is scheduled to be released December 17th.